Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, hardwarerelated?

From: Frank de Lange (frank@unternet.org)
Date: Fri Jan 12 2001 - 15:46:42 EST

On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 09:37:24PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> okay - i just wanted to hear a definitive word from you that this fixes
> your problem, because this is what we'll have to do as a final solution.
> (barring any other solution.)

Now running with this config:

PATCHED 8390.c (using irq_safe spinlocks instead of disable_irq)
PATCHED apic.c (focus cpu ENABLED)
STOCK io_apic.c

No problems under heavy network load.

Gentleman, this (the patch to 8390.c) seems to fix the problem.

Cheers//Frank 

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